Exhibit March 5 - May 17: "William Morris: Visions of an Ideal World"Includes two books produced by the Kelmscott Press and examples of designs by William Morris, interior designer, book printer, writer, socialist, and lover of the "beauty of life."Thomas Tredway Library

12:00 - 1:00 PM - Women's History Month: "Nobody Smiles Doing Housework But Those Ladies You See on TV"presented by Jane Simonsen. Her talk addresses the cultural and economic changes that have reshaped the understanding of "women's work," and the sometmies surprising ways that Amerians have thought about the meaning of work and equality."Black Hawk College, Building 4, Conference Rooms 1 & 2, 6600 34th Avenue, Moline, Illinois

Faculty News

Kirsten Day (Classics Dept.) presented a paper entitled "Experiments in Love: Longus' Daphnis & Chloe and Henry de Vere Stacpoole's Blue Lagoon" at the February 2012 Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Association conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she also served as Area Chair of the Classical Representations in Popular Culture panels. Also in February, Kirsten travelled to Hamilton College as an invited lecturer, visiting the Classics Senior Seminar, a class focused on ancient epic and Western film, and speaking to the college at large on Howard Hawks' Red River and its connections to the epic genre.

Brian Katz (Mathematics Dept.) has been asked to lead a session at a Mathematics Association of America Professional Enhancement Programs (MAA PREP) workshop this year. The session will be about using Wiki technology to support inquiry in the mathematics classroom. Brian also plans to take some data about this technological tool during his spring course and co-write an article for PRIMUS.

On 16 February, Tim Muir (Biology) and Manisha Kumar ('13) presented "Animals in Winter" to the residents of Lighthouse at Silvis, a retirement and assisted-living community in Silvis, IL.